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BROOKLYN LIFE. 18 Schedule of Plays. Columbia, Empire Company in The Masqueraders." Montauk, Fanny Davenport in Park, Frank Mayo in Pudd'nhead Wilson." Amphion, Delia Fox in Fleur De Lis." Grand Opera House, Joe Hart, A Gay Old Boy." Bijou, "On the Mississippi." Empire, Coon Hollow." Star, Variety. Hyde Behman's, Continuous Performance Vaudeville. Gayety, Variety.

Announcements. GO to the Columbia Theater to-night or tomorrow night and see Elita Proctor Otis. She almost fills the void which Georgia Cay. van's departure left in the Lyceum stock company. Greater praise Miss Otis could not ask.

I doubt if she be Miss Cayvan's equal in serious work, that actress having the tragic note in her Miss Otis's comedy is delightful. She has elegance, finish, naturalness and beauty of intonation to a degree which few actresses of thirty years experience have in them, and yet five or six years ago she was an amateur. Maude Adams has more charm, but as an artist she will have a battle royal if she keeps ahead of Miss Otis. "Rebellious Susan is great fun, too witty, bright, well put together and entertaining, whatever one may think of Mr. Jones' ethical proposition.

Kelcey plays his new style of part, the middle-aged friend of the family, finely. Fritz Williams has another gem of a make-up, Bessie Tyree satirizes the shrieking sisterhood, and Isabel Irving is a pert and vicacious Susan. FRANK MAYO is to make the presentation speech when the actors give Joe Jefferson" their loving cup on Friday afternoon next. That will bring the two sunniest and most thorough artists on the American stage into fitting association. MUSIC is becoming a more and more im-:" portant feature of our entertainments.

The Brooklyn Institute opened its fine winter season with two nearly ideal song recitals on Wednesday, Association Hall being crowded, afternoon and evening. Lillian Blauveltisat and humorous a play, using humorous in its higher sense and not as a synonym for mere horseplay. Its "business" at the Amphion Theater jumped up from $150 to $200 a night throughout the week, and that tells the story. Such a thing only happens when people have gone home and advised their neighbors to see the play. The newspapers can put a good Tuesday night audience into any theater in town when they happen to agree on the merits of the play given there, but when I see increasingly good" audiences through the week I know that the critics who do not print their opinions, have been getting in their good work.

Now that they have shown that they like PudTnkead, I may as well keep still. IT was a noble audience which said good-bye to Modjeska at the Montauk last Saturday night, and people sat still after the final curtain had fallen on "Macbeth to call the actress back for a speech. She came in street dress and hat, for she was just leaving the theater, and said a brief good night. One incident showed that even great artists sometimes lose command of themselves. Modjeska missed her lines in the passage "But screw your courage to the sticking point and we'll not fail." It looked for a minute as if there was going to be a break in the scene, but she began again and went through it only misplacing one word the second time.

But the passage, which used to one of the great points" of the traditional Lady Mac-beths, went without any effect whatever. If the actress bad struck the right word the first time she would have roused the house with the scene. She is going to revive King; John next year for her friends west of the Mississippi river. Poor Bozental Her husband says plaintively It will cost $25,000 and there is no profit in it at all, but she says Shakespeare has drawn no such great woman character as Constance, and she must play it before she stops." Was there ever an actress of such indomitable energy and devotion to her art for its own sake FANNY DAVENPORT'S souvenir of five portraits of herself which she gave on the opening night of "Gismonda," at the Montauk, was very handsome and will be more treasured by her admirers than all the plaques and candlesticks which were ever November 6 Miss Lucy De Witt, daughter of the Hon. and Mrs.

William C. De Witt, to Mr. Frank Lewis Sniffen, half after five o'clock, at the Church of the Messiah, Greene and Clermont avenues. November 7 Miss Eleanor F. Franke, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Franke, of St. Mark's avenue, to Mr. Joseph Percy Bar-tram, at the New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. November 12 Miss Helen Burnap, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. U. C. Burnap, of Lafayette avenue, to Mr. John Irving Taylor, of Boston, eight o'clock, at the Church on the Heights, Pierrepont street.

November 19 Miss Lilla de la Mesa, daughter of Mrs. Charles H. Terry, to Mr. A. C.

Fetterolf. November 19 Miss Eloise Brumley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Brumley, to Mr.

S. Armstrong Nelson, at 445 Washington avenue. ---h--- Mr, D. P. Hathaway, who is especially well known to a large number of Brooklyn residents as the proprietor of the Prospect House at Shelter Island, and to a still larger contingent throughout the country as manager of The Seminole," at Winter Park, Florida, has now the management of the entire Plant system of hotels in Florida, including the celebrated one at Tampa Bay.

Mr. Hathaway announces this week the opening dates at his Florida hotels "The Tampa Bay" on Saturday, December 7, and The Seminole," Winter Park, under the resident management of Mr. A. E. Dick, on Wednesday, January is and "The Inn," at Port Tampa, under the superintendence of Mr.

H. W. Foss, will continue open during the year. her best as a singer of such songs, as she gave them in generous measure, and Anton Hegner is always an interesting 'cellist. Arthur Foote was better known here as a composer than a pianist, but his playing proved musical and attractive, without possessing the brilliancy which is now required in concert pianists of the first rank.

His own suite and the prelude by MacDowell, which he played, are excellent illustrations of the good work of the American school of composers. The Institute, by the way, is to have recitals by MacDowell in April, and then we can see what our foremost American composer can do with his own music and other peoples. The November concert of the Institute series will introduce Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler, who set a New York audience almost into spasms of enthusiasm the other night. PADEREWSKI'S program is out for his Seidl Society concert on the nth, and the time has been fixed for evening instead of afternoon, as it should be for an artist of his very great importance. He will out-Runimell Rummell on this occasion, playing three great concertos in succession.

They are the Chopin in minor, with orchestration by Richard Burmeister; the Liszt in flat major, and Paderewski's own Polish Fantasy, for the first time here. As a matter of physical endurance, let alone musical interpretation, this breaks the record all to smash. We shall be calling him the Lucania of the keyboard before the season is over. Human chrysanthemum is old, and there always has to be a nickname for the man who is in everybody's mouth. IF I were to" io6wPuddnhead Wilson's wittiest epigram and economize truth because of its preciousness, I should say that the play which Frank Mayo has made out of Mark Twain's story is commonplace.

But I really cannot bear not to be lavish of even so choice a commodity as truth about so sweet Wedding Silver. Intending purchasers of Wedding Presents will find a distinct individuality in all our products, and, although no deviation is ever made in the standard of our workmanship, mechanical improvements and the present market value of silver bullion enable us to make all our prices extremely inviting at this time. distributed in a lobby. I EXPECT to see halt the stage-struck girls 1 in the city at the Columbia Monday night. Charles Frohman has offered them a chance to go on in the ball-room scene of The Masqueraders," and those who are not able to get upon the stage will be in the audience armed with opera glasses to detect every misstep or awkward movement of the fortunate applicants who please the stage manager's eye.

Those who are accepted to pose in evening clothes will have put their foot on the bottom rung of the theatrical ladder. THE MASQUERADERS is one of the 1 plays in which the much written up Mrs. Patrick Campbell made a stir in London. So good a judge as William Winter says that Viola Allen is much more interesting in the part, and Miss Allen is certainly a fine actress perhaps better than we realize, having seen every step of her growth. The Columbia, by the way, has now entered upon a long list of powerful attractions.

It is the comic opera house of the city, par excellence, and the magnetlcJDella Fox follows the Jones's'play. I "do not share" the' 'popular craze for Delia, myself, but I am in such a hopeless minority that I hardly dare to voice my own opinion. The Chieftain and "His Excellency," which we are all, sure to like, will be along a little later. On the Aisle. Tiffany Qo.

Union Square New York.